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Billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day.

The Internet and digital systems are insecure and cannot be made secure.  To operate in the digital world becomes increasingly risky by the day and harder to use.  The inherent insecurity of all digital systems has led to the requirement for multi-factor authentication. If you forgot to charge your cell phone or your service is down, you can’t reach your accounts because you can’t access the code texted to you necessary for you to access your account. We are already into triple authentication–password, texted code, emailed code.  In addition to these authentications, there are occasions when you use also answer questions, such as your mother’s maiden name, the street you lived on, your best friend’s name.  Sometimes the questions you have to answer are not even your questions.  They are questions that the site when it decided to add another layer of authentication came up with on its own. You then have to have the ordeal of getting in touch with a human and explaining that these are not questions that you supplied and know the answers to.

There are already sites that you cannot reach unless Cloudflare verifies that you are human. The site has to “review the security of your connection before proceeding.” For some reason Cloudflare cannot identify Apple’s browser Safari.  Consequently, Internet security prevents my access to some sites.  

It is going to get worse. I have noticed that it is increasingly difficult to use the internet.  It doesn’t work as well as it did. My guess is that the scramble for better security has produced incompatible security systems that block one another.  

Text messages to my cell phone sometimes never arrive; other times they arrive 2 or 3 days after they are sent.  

The idiot corporations were sold a bill of goods that the digital revolution would lower their costs by shifting the cost of customer relations to their customers.  Certainly the cost to customers in time and stress has gone up exponentially with the digital revolution. What in analogue days could be settled in a three minute telephone call answered on the third ring can in the new digital age take days to resolve, if it can be resolved.  

As for the idiot corporations, banks, and financial institutions, the executives are finding that the cost of digital security has more than eaten up all the savings from shifting the costs of customer assistance to the customer.  

The latest headline:  “Billions of login credentials have been leaked online, Cybernews researchers say” should tell us something.  But it won’t.  People are too stupid.  They love scrolling their cell phones.  

The digital revolution is the ultimate tool for criminals.  They can use it to steal your bank account, your retirement account, your identity.  They can load your credit cards up with their debt. They can sell your home out from under you. They can put things on your computer and cell phone for which you can be arrested.  

None of these things could happen in the analog world.

So why do we use the digital revolution?  We have been coerced.

When I close down this website, I will end my digital existence. I will use homing pigeons or smoke signals, or dispatch a messenger. 

Addendum:  It is clear that in the soon-to-be-arrived-at-future, whoever controls the AI algorithm will control what is true and what we are allowed to say and read.  It is already happening.  Recently, a friend posted on his X account two quotes from my June 19 article, “Is Trump’s Constituency Netanyahu or MAGA-America?”

Within less than 30 seconds his post was taken down and his X account cancelled.  This is X, the Twitter that Elon Musk purchased in order to restore free speech to social media.

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There are several aspects of the U.S. and Israeli attacks on nuclear facilities that deserve further discussions:

• Non-proliferation issues
• Retaliation by Iran
• Consequences of unlawful behavior

Before the U.S. and Israeli strikes on its nuclear facilities Iran was a long standing member of the Treaty for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The IAEA, tasked with verifying the adherence to the NPT, was able to inspect Iranian facilities. It knew, down to the milligram, how much enriched Uranian Iran had produced and where it was stored.

Western intelligence services as well as the IAEA did not only confirm that Iran had no nuclear weapons. They confirmed that Iran did not even have a nuclear weapon program. There were no plans to produce any weapons.

All that is now in doubt.

The NPT’s objective was to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology and to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The second part was the reason why non-nuclear nations have joined the treaty.

The U.S. demand that Iran should stop all enrichment of Uranium, as needed for civilian nuclear reactors, and the attack on Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities make it obvious that Iran is getting deprived of all the positive elements the NPT had promised. There are also serious concerns that the IAEA has leaked the names of Iranian nuclear scientists to Israel which in the end led to their assassinations.

From Iran’s side a continuation of its membership in the NPT and any cooperation with the IAEA have lost their purpose. There is no longer any reason to stay within the agreement. Iran is likely to leave the NPT.

That does mean, and does not make it more likely, that Iran will start to produce nuclear weapons. There are principal, religiously bound reasons why it has so far refrained from doing so. Those have not changed.

Iran has said that it had moved all enriched Uranium from its Fordow enrichment site shortly before the U.S. strike on the installation:

A senior Iranian source claimed to Reuters that before the U.S. attack on the Fordow nuclear facility last night (Sunday), all of the stock of enriched uranium at the site was transferred to another location.

At the same time, satellite images captured a large convoy moving near the underground nuclear facility two days before the attack. It is believed that this may be documentation of the transfer of the enriched material.

Some 400 kilogram of Uranium, enriched to 60% of U-235 isotopes needed for fission chain reactions, were squirreled away. The IAEA does not know where they are. Iran also still has a sufficient numbers of its most modern centrifuges needed for further enrichment. It can produced more if it needs those. Iran also has several other bunkers, similar to the Fordow and Natanz sites, which were build and equipped to eventually house additional enrichment facilities. Those sites are not (yet) known to the IAEA and have never been inspected.

I do expect that Iran will leave the NPT. It will ‘go dark’ about its nuclear program. It will not announce where it will do what with the nuclear material it has. The IAEA will no longer be allowed to have knowledge of it. This will make Iran a ‘latent’ nuclear weapon state even while it refrains from having a nuclear weapon.

Some might argue that Iran will not do that as it would make further U.S. attacks on it more likely.

Hello? The U.S. has just attacked Iran without ANY cause. It is likely to do so again, independent of whether Iran stays with the NPT rules or not.

Being a ‘latent’ nuclear weapon state constitutes an additional deterrence. The longer Iran stays in that state, the higher the risk for any attacker to be countered by nuclear means.

The attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities were not done to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons. The attacks are to provoke a violent response which can then be used to launch an all out war with the end-purpose of regime change in Iran.

[The Israeli government launched its attacks on Iran under the operation name ‘Rising Lion’.

The flag on the left is the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The flag on the right, depicting a lion in front of the rising sun, is the flag of Iran under the former dictatorship of the Shah. The U.S. and Israel are currently promoting the son of the deposed Shah of Iran as the future leader of the country. ‘Rising Lion’ was and is thus an obvious reference to a regime change operation in Iran.]

There is however no easy way to regime change Iran. The Iranian society is largely standing behind its government. That government is well established and seen as legitimate. It does not depend on one person. Even the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is easily replaceable. The regular military is counterbalanced with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. This makes a military coup plot untenable.

Unless there is a large scale foreign land invasion, supported by this or that minority in Iran, there is no chance to topple the Islamic Republic. The U.S. no longer has the Cold-War army that would potentially be able to do such.

Iran is likely to take additional measures in revenge for the attack on its nuclear facilities. It may well launch a symbolic strike against one U.S. base in the Gulf. But it is unlikely to do an all out attack on all U.S. assets in the Gulf region. That is still an option but it will be reserved for later.

Any measures taken now in response to the attacks on its nuclear facilities will likely by designed to NOT give the U.S. a pretext for additional attacks on Iran.

The main enemy of Iran is still Israel. Iran has established an attritional war against it. Daily attacks by drones and medium range missiles against Israel are designed to deplete its air defenses. Only after that is done will the strikes get more serious. Israel depends on air defenses manufactured and provided by the U.S. Their production is limited and it depends on the availability of rare materials. China is currently withholding rare earth licenses from U.S. weapon producers. This will further decrease the availability of air defense items.

Israel knows that it can not sustain an attritional war with Iran:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that Israel aims to avoid a “war of attrition” with Iran, the Times of Israel reported.

“We won’t pursue our actions beyond what is needed to achieve [the goals], but we also won’t finish too soon,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying.

It is not for Netanyahoo to decide when the current war ends. (Just like it is not for Zelenski to decide when there will be a ceasefire in Ukraine.) Israel is already in a war of attrition. Iran will continue to wage it.

Iran will, as said, avoid a direct war with the U.S. military as long as it can. But it will implement measures that will squeeze the U.S. as best as it can. It is likely to close the Strait of Hormuz for all energy transports that are destined to reach countries which support its enemies. Transports to China, India and global south countries will continue. U.S. allies in Europe and Asia, and the U.S. itself, will suffer. Oil prices will increase – at least for those who oppose Iran.

To implement that does not even require openly hostile measures. Loud announcements, plus a few explosions next to tankers going from the Gulf towards Rotterdam, is all that is needed to deprive any such transports of insurance. The global ‘free’ markets create the consequences.

When the price of oil reaches above $100 per barrel the U.S. economy will move into a recession. During the midterm election the Republican party will lose the majority in the House and Senate. Trump will become a lame duck.

Trump attacked Iran without even an attempt to provide a sound reasoning. There was no false flag incident or any serious argument of weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. attacked Iran simply because it could do so.

Trump is thereby not only in breach of the U.S. constitution, which requires Congress to declare a war. The U.S. war of aggression against Iran is also a breach of the U.S. Charter. Its attacks on civil nuclear installations is a breach of the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Convention which prohibits these.

We are now in a new world disorder:

The first major consequence, in broader terms, is that this strike dealt a final, irreparable blow to what little remained of the post-war international legal and institutional framework. That order was already in tatters — shredded by a year and a half of Western-backed genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. But this latest attack makes it official: Western powers no longer feel the need to cloak their actions in legality, morality or even the façade of diplomatic legitimacy.
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Today, even that pretense is gone. In Gaza, and now with the strikes on Iran, the gloves are fully off. What we’re witnessing is a regression to a kind of global lawlessness — a “might makes right” free-for-all where nothing is off limits: not the mass slaughter of civilians, not the bombing of nuclear sites, not even the complete sidelining of international institutions.

That the U.S. is doing this, with open support of its European proxies, is not only a danger for the international system but also for the domestic population of these countries:

This isn’t only a threat to international security. It’s also a profound threat to what little freedoms we still have left within the West itself. Make no mistake: the Western ruling classes’ open embrace of Mafia-style gangsterism abroad also means that they will have no qualms about brushing aside whatever ethical, legal, constitutional and democratic constrains that still stand in the way of their desperate, hallucinatory bid to preserve the crumbling order.

We have already seen this in the illegitimate suppression of protests against the genocide in Gaza. It will proliferate from there. The West is, slowly but accelerating, sliding from a ‘rule of law’ status into the darkness of unbound fascism. It is on us to prevent that.

Reprinted with permission from Moon of Alabama.

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The second stanza of the Iliad lets the reader know that this is going to be a story about humans fighting each other. Surprisingly, the primary conflict isn’t the war between the Greeks and the Trojans, but between Agamemnon and Achilles. On top of this destructive conflict, the Greek army is further punished by the plague.

Begin with the clash between Agamemnon—
The Greek warlord, and the godlike Achilles.

Which of the immortals set these two
At each other’s throats?
Apollo … offended by the warlord.

Agamemnon had dishonored
Chryses, Apollo’s priest, so the god
Struck the Greek camp with plague,
And the soldiers were dying of it.

And so, we see that the first great story of western literature is about humans fighting each other while at the same time being struck with an infectious disease.

In our new book, Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality, we show that, from the beginning of the vaccine enterprise in the 18th century, vaccines have been conceptualized as weapons for fighting infectious diseases, while infectious diseases have been conceptualized as akin to an invading army.

To understand the mesmerizing fascination of weapons for the human mind, consider that the United States now spends almost a trillion dollars per year on armaments. Waging war and developing weapons has forever been one of man’s chief occupations and motivations.

The most conspicuous and astonishing feature of the human condition is that—despite all of our advances in developing civilizations that protect us from the hostile elements of nature—we have made zero advances in overcoming our nature to fight each other instead of developing more sophisticated ways for resolving conflicts.

The pointless pissing contests that we see in Eastern Europe and the Middle East are identical to the destructive enmity between Achilles and Agamemnon. When it comes to conflict resolution, mankind has learned nothing since the 8th century BC.

On the contrary, our technological advances in weapons development—especially aircraft, missiles, and drones—have enabled us to depersonalize the enemy far more than the men of the past who struggled hand-to-hand with each other.

I remember my grandfather telling me around the year 1985 that he was still haunted by the sight of the extremely young German soldiers that he killed while he served as an infantry soldier in northern Italy in 1945.

“Some of them were still completely beardless,” he said.

Because they were fighting with rifles and grenades instead of with bombs dropped out of planes, they actually saw each other.

Instead of developing more sophisticated ways to cooperate and resolve conflict, humans prefer to develop ever more destructive weapons to intimidate, destroy, and subdue each other.

The story of man’s war against infectious disease is more complex and paradoxical because, while the medical profession has been completely fixated on vaccine development, the true vanquishers of infectious diseases have been the following major advances that occurred in the West between approximately 1870 and 1943:

1) Nutrition (significant increases in food availability and nutrient content) greatly improved public health and disease resistance. Vitamin D fortification of milk in the 1930s further strengthened children’s immune health. The severity of malnutrition in the past—catastrophic for immune health—is evidenced by the fact that scurvy and rickets were still common among the poor until the 20th century.

2) Public sanitation, with modern sewer systems installed to channel effluent away from cities and their drinking water, largely eradicated cholera and typhoid fever by the year 1900. Public sanitation campaigns in the U.S. against breeding mosquito grounds largely eliminated yellow fever by the year 1906. In the American South, an aggressive public sanitation campaign to build outhouses largely eradicated hookworm by the year 1955.

3) Secure water supply and treatment (filtration and chlorination) infrastructure.

4) Pasteurization, refrigeration, and other hygienic measures for producing, transporting, and storing milk and other food products.

5) Improved housing (better heating, ventilation, and plumbing) for the urban working poor. Water closets, soap, warm water, and detergent for washing bed linens and clothing became standard household amenities.

6) Labor laws reduced hazardous and stressful working conditions, including excessively long hours.

7) Introduction of sulfa antibiotics in the 1930s, penicillin in 1943, and erythromycin in 1952, reduced mortality from bacterial infections including diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus.

As we note in our book:

In his 1988 book, The Origins of Human Disease, the British physician, epidemiologist, and medical historian, Thomas McKeown, made a persuasive case that of all factors, nutritional improvements made the single greatest contribution to the reduction of infectious disease mortality. A well-nourished body with no vitamin deficiencies is very hardy, but it becomes highly susceptible when it is malnourished. In our era of calorie abundance, it is easy to forget that, even in Europe and North America, famine and vital nutrient deficiencies were a common feature of the human condition until well into the 20th century.

McKeown’s thesis seems artistically expressed in Albrecht Dürer’s painting “The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse,” in which Famine (wielding a grain scale) is the central horseman in the charge that tramples man underfoot, and is riding the biggest steed.

HHS Secretary Kennedy is thus on the right track with his endeavor to improve American nutrition by replacing sugary processed foods with wholesome foods with a vastly superior nutrient profile.

In the long story of vaccines, we have arrived at the moment of realizing that they are—like the weapons of war—relatively primitive instruments for improving the human condition.

Just as more human ingenuity should be applied to conflict resolution instead of developing more destructive weapons, medical science should seek more sophisticated ways of bolstering the immune system and treating infectious diseases instead of injecting infants with ever larger batteries of vaccines.

The obsessive fascination with vaccines is an intellectual artifact of the 18th century, when humans were still living in extremely primitive conditions.

This article was originally published on Courageous Discourse – Focal Points.

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For the world at large, President Trump may be a war criminal.

He campaigned as a Peace President – but knowingly lied, because with all evidence coming to the fore now, he knew what he was going to do… everything that the Deep Warrior State wants him to do, what the Zionist financial oligarchy around the world prescribes him to do, what the war industry needs him to do.

He has betrayed people not only in the United States but in the world.

President Trump has sided with Israel in ethnic cleansing of Gaza, in an illegal attack on a sovereign country that posed no nuclear risk to anyone – many times confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), least to the US.

Mr. Trump has unilaterally on his own –on advice of his criminal advisers– taken illegal actions according to the US’s own Constitution, bombing a sovereign country without approval of Congress. By doing so, targeting Iranian nuclear research sites, Trump puts the entire region, possibly beyond, at risk of contamination by radiation. And this, although the IAEA has said there was no risk. Wind does not know borders, as Chernobyl and Fukushima have proven.

The IAEA had no choice in discarding the radiation dangers. The agency’s directors were all chosen for their western stance.

The US and Israeli bombing of Iran’s three principal nuclear sites, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, have killed targeted nuclear scientists and high-ranking military officers, plus thousands of civilians, the majority women, and children. Trump has clearly teamed up with another war criminal, his buddy, Benjamin Netanyahu. But they do not care.

They are sick, dreaming of a Las Vegas-type Gaza beach resort, with casinos and high-life.

They know western “rules-based orders” cover all their criminal actions – besides, the rules are now made to suit their purpose.

Judge Napolitano says it clearly here:

If the US Constitution and International Laws, the UN Charter still have some meaning, Mr. Trump should be impeached immediately.

That is the world we have become. Nobody seems to care. That is how our minds have been manipulated. We do not care for each other anymore. We care about the little smart-phone screen and the stupidities and lies it emits. We are glued to these gadgets, day-in and day-out.

Unless a drastic awakening happens, our next generations are totally addicted to these enslaving machines. They are like our closest companions, without which we cannot imagine life. This, of course is no coincidence. Remember, coincidences do not exist. All and everything is planned and has a purpose. And the purpose becomes ever more obvious. Is it already too late to stop it?

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People in the west have become self-centered materialists. They could hardly care about the future of our planet. What must come, comes. No efforts for real Peace, for lasting Peace, are made. Because in our absurd world, War is Peace and Peace is War.

It is a material world, where even spirituality is explained with Darwinian-type material reasoning. High-ranking politicians and strategists in Russia, China, the US, Europe, instead of seeking ways to Peace, they debate what is next. What if Iran falls?

Washington calls for regime change, as Trump may call it, “Make Iran Great Again” – of course, a US puppet. Anybody in his clear mind will know this is not going to happen. Iran is not Iraq, and is not Syria, and is nobody’s puppet.

Before “falling,” Iran has a myriad of options on the table, not least closing the Strait of Hormuz, where more than 20% of the world’s energy in the form of oil and gas passes through, and attacking the US bases in the Gulf States, from where the devastating Iran bombing took place.

To forego such steps, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the “regime change” champion, and Vice President J.D. Vance, warned Iran already against making the “big mistake” of closing the Strait of Hormuz.

Similarly on earlier occasion, Trump in one of his pompous talks, said something to the extent, if Iran dares attacking US bases in the region – they would be bombed to ashes, so that the earlier US bombing of the three nuclear sites looks like a walk in the park.

Earlier this evening, the Financial Times reported (see this), Iran fired missiles at the  sprawling Al Udeid American military base, just outside of Doha, Qatar. This is in retaliation of the massive US bombing of the three nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend. Usually, some 10,000 US troops are stationed at the base, but Trump evacuated most of them before his attack on Iran.

Al Udeid, also serves the Royal Air Force as regional headquarters, risking dragging also the UK into the conflict. On Monday UK foreign secretary David Lammy said the UK was ready to defend its personnel and assets in the region and that “of its allies and partners.”

Details as to Iranian missile damage are not yet known.

Does this indicate a further escalation? Maybe already as of tomorrow?

What’s next? West Asia is rapidly converting into a major war zone, as hostilities escalate in warp speed. Will Trump make good on his promise to “wipe out” Iran?

Could he?

Did Russia and China finally warn Trump – not crossing a “red line”?

Russia is not likely. Putin has too often shifted his own red lines. And President Putin has too often been seen and photographed shaking hands with Netanyahu. A strange, very strange, brotherly relationship.

But China?

China has been deploying naval ships to the Gulf of Aden since December 2008 as part of an anti-piracy mission authorized by the UN. These deployments are within a larger effort to protect Chinese shipping interests and extend China’s naval presence in the region. Their presence now cannot be ignored. Iran, together with China and Russia, is a key BRICS member, and since 2023 Iran is also an adherent to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

It looks like Iran is not totally alone, even though none of the BRICS states have so far raised their fist in protest. But maybe in their pockets they did, for now invisible to the western world. After all, Iran is a key player in the Global South.

And looking closer, isn’t this unfolding war theatre perhaps not so much an attack on Iran as a military target, but having a dual purpose: an attempt at breaking up the BRICS and the associated Global South, which is becoming fast an economic danger for the west? And on the other hand, Iran is one of the few countries whose central bank is not privatized as a member of the Bank for International Settlement (BIS – in Basel, Switzerland) which is controlled by the Rothschild clan – and has oversight over more than 90% of all central banks and about 97% of all the world’s tradable currencies.

Iran escapes the BIS supremacy, as well as the dollar-sanction SWIFT banking and transfer system and trades her hydrocarbons in local currencies with Russia, China, the BRICS, and their associates.

This monetary independence is dangerous for the Zionists control over world finances which is almost perfect and complete. An outcast like Iran could pull along others, influence other BRICS countries, their associates, and the Global South at large.

The Global South accounts for 85% of the world population and for about 40% of world GDP, exceeding the G7 – which have become nothing more than a group of un-funny gnomes.

This should be remembered when the talk is about strategic actions, bombing and sub-doing Iran’s military danger to the region and the world – beware of Iran becoming a nuclear power in no time.

The major reason for the assault on Iran, may be monetary, because that is and has been for centuries the Zionist’s bread and butter and the instrument to control and starve the rest of the world. They will not give it up.

The rogue state Israel is right there, with hundreds of nuclear warheads, outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) – never mentioned as the real military and nuclear danger in the region. What a strange surprise!

Iran shall not fall. God forbid!

The original source of this article is Global Research.

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The ultra-wealthy are planning your future right now. They’ll call it ‘utopia’ and sell it to you as such, but it’s actually the opposite. Welcome to the first of a two-part series.

Utopia is a place of “ideal perfection, especially in laws, government, and social conditions.” At least, that’s the dictionary definition.

The thing is, despite humans having tried for thousands of years to attain Eden-esque perfection, it’s impossible. Worse, the irony of such efforts is literally baked into the word ‘utopia:’

From Merriam Webster (emphasis added):

In 1516, English humanist Sir Thomas More published a book titled Utopia, which compared social and economic conditions in Europe with those of an ideal society on an imaginary island located off the coast of the Americas. More wanted to imply that the perfect conditions on his fictional island could never really exist, so he called it “Utopia,” a name he created by combining the Greek words ou (“not, no”) and topos (“place”).

Still, that doesn’t stop people from trying to create fictional paradise. The latest attempts are — unsurprisingly — conceived of, funded by, and built by our billionaire overlords, who aim to own everything and define how our lives will be lived in the future.

At the same time, a paradox is unfolding. While several attempts at billionaire-initiated paradises are currently in the works, some efforts are failing, some are falling apart, and some are simply struggling to get off the ground.

What we know about Silicon Valley elites, bitcoin bros, and AI billionaires is that they dream big and have virtually limitless finances. So even failed attempts at utopia — or whatever their version of it is — gets the entire cohort a step closer to decoding a formula that might stick. It’s like unlimited funding to indulge a God complex.

In part one of this series, we’re looking at four concepts for creating paradise on earth crafted by the freedom loving, libertarian, optimized-living-through-technology crowd. What exactly do these communities promise? Who’s behind them? And most importantly, could they just be 15-minute dystopian wolves in utopian sheep’s clothing? Let’s dive in.

1. Próspera (Honduras)

Próspera began as a bold libertarian experiment on the tropical island of Roatán, off the northern coast of Honduras. It’s the brainchild of Erick Brimen, a Venezuelan-born wealth fund manager who imagined a city run not by politicians, but by market forces and blockchain logic. He’s aiming to create a low-tax, deregulated tech haven where businesses can make their own laws, or choose to implement existing national laws from a menu of 36 countries. Residents pay low taxes (payable in Bitcoin), and biotech startups push the limits of radical life extension with experimental, as yet unproven treatments disallowed in other countries.

With venture capital backing from Coinbase and Sam Altman–linked projects, plus support from figures like Peter Thiel, Próspera has quickly become a magnet for crypto evangelists, longevity obsessives, and deregulation devotees. It hosts conferences with themes like: “Make death optional.” It’s creating a walled city with private arbitration courts, judges who adjudicate online from Arizona (no idea why Arizona — our research was not explicit), and QR-code entry checkpoints.

But like all utopias, this charter city dream has clashed with reality. One critic called it a “libertarian fantasy… that’s not going to turn out well.” The Honduran government that initially supported the project and allowed for the zoning laws making it possible has since collapsed in scandal — with the former president serving time in US prison for conspiring to import and distribute over 400 tons of cocaine. That’s a lot of blow.

Locals in the nearby village of Crawfish Rock have not taken kindly to the idea of the gated city and have accused Próspera of land grabs, environmental damage, and trying to push them out. When the current democratic socialist President, Xiomara Castro, declared the former administration’s zoning laws unconstitutional, Próspera fought back in international court, demanding nearly $11 billion USD in damages — about a third of the country’s GDP — an amount that would bankrupt the country if they lose the case.

Brimen is doubling down, lobbying American politicians to argue in his favor and launching a spin-off project aimed at Africa.

This all plays out as an ironic twist of history: a 21st-century version of the banana republic, complete with foreign investors, private courts, and corporate control over land, law, and labor. The term ‘banana republic’ was coined by author O. Henry to describe Honduras — a place where US fruit companies ran the economy. Now, crypto-capitalists and Silicon Valley VCs are picking up where the plantations left off, except this time, they’re promising immortality instead of bananas.

NEOM was supposed to be Saudi Arabia’s leap into the future: a $500 billion high-tech oasis in the desert that would make even Silicon Valley blush. Conceived in 2017 by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the crown jewel of his Vision 2030 plan, NEOM promised flying taxis, robot dinosaurs, artificial moons, a desert ski resort with fake snow, and a 170-kilometer mirrored city called The Line.

This mirrored city was meant to stretch 170 kilometers across the desert with no cars, no roads, and no emissions — just smart infrastructure, biometric surveillance, and those previously mentioned flying taxis.

None of this matters; Saudi officials press on. Promotional videos still promise a gleaming future where “Neomians” live in harmony with nature, technology, and robot dinosaurs. But those on the ground tell a different story — of constant surveillance, sexual harassment allegations ignored by leadership, and Orwellian control over employee life. Promises of a liberalized social zone — with alcohol, gender mixing, freedom — have quietly been walked back by a government known for its public stonings and other extreme punishment for ‘immorality.’

NEOM may, in fact, never turn out to be the future of urban life. But it may just be the world’s most expensive monument to authoritarian delusion: a dystopian nightmare of a city built on sand, surveillance, and slogans.

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Catholic parents, do your daughters know that it’s okay—even good and holy—to desire a life as wife and mother, even above (and even forgoing) all other earthly considerations? Have you told them explicitly that they are free to pursue Holy Matrimony (a woman’s natural vowed state of life) as a goal in itself, bypassing the culture’s worldly expectations for young women today? If you have, praise God! This article is not for you.

For the rest, consider these personal stories:

After I graduated from my large, public, Arizona high school in 1985, I went on to a top private New England university, graduated summa cum laude, and then was off to a Southern graduate school where I had been awarded a coveted assistantship. Every marker for worldly success was on the table, and the world was my oyster!

However, not once did I actually consider having a career. I knew what my real goal was from the time I was a small girl—and it wasn’t to join the workforce, compete with men, climb the ladder, and make a lot of money (or “make history”). All my heart truly desired was to get married and have babies. I’d never even been around babies growing up, but I wanted to be a stay-at-home wife and mom, just like my own mother and most of the women in my 1970s neighborhood when I was in grade school. (Knowing there was a mother behind the door of each house was such a comfort and a gift to all the neighborhood kids walking to and from school or playing outside all day!)

But before I could live my dream, I had to get through college as expected. I’m not exactly sorry that I went to college—as that is how I eventually met my husband—but even that detail served my plan; as far as I was concerned, I was there to get my “MRS” degree, as they used to say. In that regard, I was not really an anomaly, as most students my age still expected to find a spouse in college and get married soon after; but a good percentage of the women expected to forge a career, too.

Meanwhile, one good friend of mine from high school didn’t go to college but instead married her high school sweetheart at age 19—a teen bride! I couldn’t attend her wedding in our hometown, as I was far away in Boston, finishing up my freshman year. I distinctly remember sitting on my bed in my tiny dorm room on the day of her nuptials. I was wistful, joyful, and envious, all at the same time. She was living my dream.

To be sure, being a young bride without a college degree was certainly “not for me” (skipping a bachelor’s degree was not an option in my world, or even in my own mind), but my longing for what she had was real and primal. I knew I had years to go before it was my turn, so I told myself to suck it up and deal with it. I watched from afar as my friend easily conceived and bore one baby, then another, in her prime fertile years.

Even though I was not supposed to feel it, I had such admiration for her. I looked up to her—and not down on her—because, in my mind, she was already living as an adult, unlike me. I envied her life as a grown-up wife and mommy with a home of her own while I plodded through my (often questionable) courses and lived in the artificial, debauched, and degrading arrested adolescence that is the college scene.

Thankfully, the Lord can work within a mess of darkness, and I did meet my future husband during those college years. We became engaged six weeks after graduation, and I felt like my adult life was finally about to start. I dropped out of grad school after the first two weeks because my life was not about that anymore. I could throw off the shackles of “gain another degree, get more accolades, go out and change the world!” and free my heart to get ready for my wedding and a perfectly natural future of housewifery and babies, just like my—and everyone else’s—ancestral line of hardworking, noble foremothers.

After an unnecessarily long engagement (short engagements like my parents’ and grandparents’ were irresponsible, you see), we were wed a year later. I worked at a small, women-only ad agency until just before our first child was born. I have been home ever since and have never looked back.

Money was tight, and we lived in apartments for those first years. My husband worked as a room-service attendant when employment was scarce. But my heart was overflowing. I loved everything about being a woman, wife, and mother; and I had a husband who understood that his manly task was to protect and provide.

Okay, so that’s all well and good. That was the late 1980s and early ’90s, when a holdover nostalgia for homemaking may have still captivated the hearts of young women at the time. But what about more modern women? Surely, after 30+ more years of nonstop feminist brainwashing and a push for a genderless, androgynous society, female hearts are finally free from those strange longings for a husband and babies and making a home; that interior pining was only a “social construct” after all, and young women today are not “limited” by the constraints of tradition, right? I am not so sure.

When I was writing my old Little Catholic Bubble blog, there was a regular reader and commenter who went by the username “college student.” She was not Catholic; she was a feminist, a vocal proponent of the hook-up culture, a Planned Parenthood and abortion supporter—basically, a liberal Democrat—who sparred with me often. But, although things were contentious in the comment boxes, we befriended each other privately.

She was about the age of my oldest child, and I had a maternal heart for her and grew to love her. This beautiful young lady graduated, joined the corporate world, had lots of boyfriends/dates, and became successful in all the ways the modern world expects of modern women.

But in private, she had a confession. The secret longing of her heart was to find a good man, get married, and have babies. She said that when she and her feminist friends spoke privately, they talked about “weddings and babies.” I told her that was perfectly normal and rightly ordered. This draw toward hearth and home is the natural desire of the feminine heart since the beginning of creation when God made Eve a wife and a mother. It is certainly nothing to be ashamed of!

I gave her a gentle challenge: Why not break the taboo? Why not put her true desire out on her social media and tell folks that her dream was to be a wife and mother? She said, “Leila, you know I can’t do that.” My heart felt sad for her—and for a nation of young, stressed-out, medicated, lonely women, many of them “boss babes” who cannot even identify why they ache so much and so deeply.

These stories are representative of millions, of course. And there are many reasons given, even by Catholic parents, as to why their daughter “should” do this and “must” do that long before she gets serious about finding a husband, getting married, and starting a family. After all, there is that degree to be earned, career to be launched, debts to be paid, fun to be had, serial dating to experience, “independence” to be established, and oh my, the travel! There are also extended family, friends, and a world of social media to impress with all her personal accomplishments first. We all know how things are today, and the pressure to “do all the things” is heavy on our girls.

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In the end, predictably, the Circus Ringmaster went TACO (“Trump Always Chickens Out”).

In the end, predictably, the Circus Ringmaster went TACO (“Trump Always Chickens Out”).

He was terrified by three crucial reality-based developments.

1. The Iranian message on preparing to close the Strait of Hormuz. The CIA had warned Trump that China was viscerally opposed to the Strait being blocked. That’s one of the reasons, according to a Deep State old hand, that Trump decided to go ahead anyway with his “spectacular” (sic) theatrical op on Fordow. But when the specter of a blocked Hormuz destroying the global economy became real, he went TACO.
2. The Iranian warning conveyed by the bombing of the Al-Udeid base in Qatar, the military jewel in the imperial crown in West Asia. Even Atlanticist sources in Doha confirm the damage to the – evacuated – base was “monumental”, with at least 3 missiles hitting their targets. Tehran was unmistakably saying we can hit you anywhere, anytime, with anything we want. And your GCC lackeys will blame you for it.
3. Arguably the key reason: the genocidals in Tel Aviv are running out of interceptors – fast; in fact their whole – porous – air defense network is in trouble. In the last substantial Iranian missile volley on occupied Palestine on Monday morning, interception rate fell below 50%, and Iran started targeting Israel’s electric grid. Iran’s new directive – strategic offense, not patience – was meant to completely paralyze the Israeli economy. On top of it the genocidals had already begged Tehran to “end the war”. Tehran answered the time had not yet arrived. So the genocidals begged Daddy Trump to rescue them.

The chain of events leading to the ceasefire remains murky. A key accelerating factor was Putin’s personal meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi at the Kremlin on Monday.

Speaking on behalf of Ayatollah Khamenei, Araghchi may have asked for a solid supply of weapons and most of all defense systems; but these will take time, especially considering that the strategic partnership recently approved by both the Duma and the Majlis in Tehran is not – officially – a military alliance.

Yet according to sources in Moscow who were informed about the meeting, Putin did position Russia at the center of a possible resolution, thus displacing Washington. Team Trump 2.0 was incensed. Trump boasted that both Iran and Israel had called him almost simultaneously to arrance a ceasefire. Nonsense: only Tel Aviv did. As Putin made it clear, once again, that Russia would back Iran, he indirectly offered Trump an off-ramp.

True to character, the Circus Ringmaster jumped on it, marketing his own, branded ceasefire, reality show-style. And this only two days after gloating that the Iranian nuclear program was “obliterated” (he insists on it even as U.S. intel admits the program may have been set back for only a matter of months).

A supreme taboo has been broken

Iran has learned a few important lessons the hardest way, paying a horrendous price. Tehran was way too transparent and reasonable dealing with a bunch of gangsters: from allowing IAEA nuclear monitoring that turned out to be a process of amassing precious intel for Israeli targeting; and believing in diplomacy and honoring agreements that were unceremoniously ditched.

There’s no diplomacy when it comes to dealing with the imperial Leviathan/Behemoth – especially as it contemplates, in horror, its frootprint being reduced all across the Global South.

Domestically though, Iran is going to the next level. There are at least three factions in confrontation: Ayatollah Khamenei and his close circle plus the IRGC; the reformists, embodied by the meek Pezeshkian presidency; and what could be construed as secular nationalists, who want a strong Iran but not as a theo-democracy.

The IRGC now has all the power. Defending the homeland against the deadly Zionist axis, Empire included, crystalized a widespread sentiment of national unity and pride. All sectors of the Iranian population – 90 million, someone tell pathetic Marco Rubio – rallied around the flag.

Conceptually, the ceasefire – nobody knows how long it will last – is adverse to Iran, because its increasing deterrence capacity is now lost. Israel will have its air defenses feverishly replenished while Iran, alone, will need months and even years to rebuild.

The imperial modus operandi remains the same. The Circus Ringmaster saw that a monster humiliation was at hand –something like Israel’s Vietnam: so he announced a one-sided ceasefire and fled.

Yet the configuration for the next battles has changed. If Washington decides to escalate again, or resorts to the certified practice of using terror proxies, Iran as the de facto leader of the Resistance will resolutely counter-attack. The myth of genocidal invincibility has been shattered forever. The whole Global South has seen it, and now takes it in serious consideration.

It remains open to serious discussion whether Tehran will finally opt to follow a DPRK model to counteract the – failed, so far – imposition of a Libya and/or Syria model. Uranium enrichment will continue. With an added film noir plot twist: nobody knows where the uranium is.

The Empire of Chaos, predictably, will never stop. Only when the whole Global South unites with an iron will and force it to stop. The conditions are not in place – yet.

As it stands, the real ceasefire would be between the U.S. and the Global South, led institutionally by Russia-China, BRICS and several other multipolar organizations. The chance of the U.S. ruling classes honoring such a long-lasting ceasefire, if it ever happens, are less than zero.

As for the Iran-Israel ceasefire, that’s not the end of the war. On the contrary; it’s the – dubious – end of just the first hot battle. The dogs and hyenas of war will be back, sooner or later. There will be blood – over and over again. Yet at least a supreme taboo has been broken: that death cult in West Asia can indeed be mortally wounded.

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The way some Christians idolize President Trump you would think he was the fourth member of the Trinity. I wonder how they feel about their man dropping F-bombs whenever he talks about Iran. I guess it is okay because Iran is a Muslim country.

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Former Congressman Matt Gaetz Secretly Recorded on Flight — Private Texts to His Mom About Trump, Iran, and Media Gig Leaked

The Gateway Pundit

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Thanks. John Frahm.

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Tim McGraw wrote:

Hi Lew,

I’ve been to Las Vegas dozens of times, to Hollywood four times, and once, for six months to Belem, Brazil (which is named after Bethlehem), in the Amazon River delta. What truths did I find?

In Las Vegas, I found the most Libertarian city in the USA, if not the world. Anything goes in Vegas. It’s a fantasy city in the middle of the desert that relies on Hoover Dam and Lake Mead for its existence.

Hollywood is another fantasy city in a desert that also relies on water from elsewhere, like Las Vegas. Los Angeles, to me, is the most interesting city in the world.

Belem is reality. The equatorial sun, rain forest, heat and humidity, disease, poisonous this and that, nothing is man’s friend in Belem except man (they don’t even have dogs or cats).

Belem is the truth.

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According to press reports, President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff is back in touch with Iran after the ceasefire with Israel. Will a deal still be possible? Is Iran still interested?

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Synopsis:

“Cold War is a twenty-four episode television documentary series about the Cold War that aired in 1998. It features interviews and footage of the events that shaped the tense relationships between the Soviet Union and the United States.

“The series was produced by Pat Mitchell and Jeremy Isaacs, who had earlier in 1973 produced the World War II documentary series The World at War in a similar style. Ted Turner funded the series as a joint production between the Turner Broadcasting System and the BBC, and was first broadcast on CNN in the United States and BBC Two in the United Kingdom. Writers included Hella Pick, Jeremy Isaacs, Lawrence Freedman, Neal Ascherson, Hugh O’Shaughnessy and Germaine Greer. Kenneth Branagh was the narrator, and Carl Davis (who also collaborated with Isaacs with The World at War) composed the theme music. Each episode would feature historical footage and interviews from both significant figures and others who had witnessed particular events.

“For both altruistic and self-serving purposes, the United States provides massive grants of aid to the countries of Europe in the form of the Marshall Plan. Stalin, concerned that the intent of the Marshall Plan is to weaken Soviet influence in Europe, prevents countries in its orbit from participating, and establishes the rival Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Communists come to power through a coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948. Tito, while originally aligned to the Soviet Union, adopts a more independent foreign policy and eventually switches to receiving Marshall Aid Assistance. The CIA and the Catholic Church conspire to help oust the Italian Communist Party and its coalition allies in the 1948 Italian election. The Marshall Plan has the effect of modernising European economies and societies, bringing Western Europe closer together, and closer to the United States. Interviewees include Vladimir Yerofeyev, Gianni Agnelli and Giulio Andreotti. The pre-credits scene portrays the squalor in post-war Italy, and Truman delivering his Truman Doctrine speech of 1947.”

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Il manoscritto fornisce un grimaldello al lettore, una chiave di lettura semplificata, del mondo finanziario e non che sembra essere andato "fuori controllo" negli ultimi quattro anni in particolare. Questa è una storia di cartelli, a livello sovrastatale e sovranazionale, la cui pianificazione centrale ha raggiunto un punto in cui deve essere riformata radicalmente e questa riforma radicale non può avvenire senza una dose di dolore economico che potrebbe mettere a repentaglio la loro autorità. Da qui la risposta al Grande Default attraverso il Grande Reset. Questa è la storia di un coyote, che quando non riesce a sfamarsi all'esterno ricorre all'autofagocitazione. Lo stesso è accaduto ai membri del G7, dove i sei membri restanti hanno iniziato a fagocitare il settimo: gli Stati Uniti.

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(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/lintelligenza-artificiale-ci-rendera)

Gli aspetti dell'intelligenza artificiale sono assolutamente affascinanti, persino sorprendenti. Abbiamo a portata di mano un numero di informazioni mai visto prima e i migliori strumenti disponibili ci consentono di accedere a una vasta letteratura.

Sembra essere successo tutto all'improvviso e incredibilmente. Mi ritrovo ancora ad adattarmi a questo nuovo mondo. Non c'è dubbio che abbia migliorato la mia vita e sto sviluppando l'abitudine di “chiedere a Grok” qualsiasi cosa.

Non tutte le risposte sono perfette (a volte ho passato parecchio tempo a discutere con questo cervello finto), ma dà alla mente una spinta nella giusta direzione, fornendo suggerimenti per chiunque sia curioso su quasi ogni argomento.

Dieci anni fa avrei potuto facilmente prevedere un mondo molto più intelligente che sarebbe emerso da questa tecnologia. Mi fa davvero sentire più intelligente. Forse l'aspetto migliore dell'IA è come ha superato e probabilmente spodesterà la moltitudine di falsi esperti trincerati nel mondo accademico, nelle organizzazioni non profit e nelle aziende.

Sono stati a lungo pagati per essere depositari di informazioni. Sicuramente percepiscono che possono essere sostituiti o, quantomeno, che il loro primato nella leadership intellettuale è messo a dura prova. Prendete in considerazione anche che siamo solo all'inizio. Il divario tra la conoscenza d'élite e ciò che può essere appreso istantaneamente da chiunque si ridurrà ulteriormente.

Le implicazioni sono notevoli e porteranno sicuramente a una ristrutturazione di molti settori, tra cui quelli specializzati nella diffusione della conoscenza.

Ripenso a ciò che sappiamo di Sant'Isidoro di Siviglia del VII secolo, il quale lavorò con una numerosa squadra di amanuensi per scrivere le “Etymologiae”. Fu un tentativo di registrare tutto il sapere conosciuto, la prima vera enciclopedia. Fu un progetto che assorbì la sua vita e quella dell'intero monastero.

L'ambizione di accumulare, assemblare e diffondere il corpus della conoscenza umana è stata una delle aspirazioni trainanti di molti progetti letterari.

Dopo che la stampa e la carta divennero più accessibili, il mercato delle biblioteche domestiche si aprì negli Stati Uniti tra il 1890 e gli anni successivi. Un tempo prerogativa esclusiva dei ricchi, possedere grandi biblioteche divenne il sogno di molte famiglie della classe media.

Gli editori erano pronti a soddisfare la domanda. Nel 1917 fu pubblicata l'enciclopedia “World Book”. Nacque un'industria con vendite porta a porta e servizi di abbonamento. Innumerevoli altri editori si impegnarono nel grande compito di arricchire la base di conoscenza americana. Era una parte fondamentale del programma progressista, un mezzo per elevare la popolazione, educare le persone a valori più elevati, promuovere l'alfabetizzazione e un vivere civile.

Gli americani erano tutti entusiasti e i libri arrivavano per posta in continuazione. Particolarmente attraenti erano queste grandi raccolte di più volumi, non solo enciclopedie, ma anche romanzi, discorsi, documenti presidenziali, ampie cronache storiche e, naturalmente, i Grandi Libri. Ancora oggi questi libri sono meravigliosi e costituiscono la base di un'ottima istruzione. È possibile acquistarne raccolte su eBay a prezzi molto bassi.

Quando è arrivato Internet, la speranza più grande era che diventasse l'equivalente moderno di tutta la conoscenza umana. Mio padre era scettico. Fin da piccolo gli ho mostrato nuovi strumenti interessanti e lui li superava subito in astuzia grazie alle sue conoscenze altamente specializzate su una serie di argomenti specifici. Lo faceva per dimostrarmi che, sebbene questi strumenti potessero essere preziosi, non avrebbero mai potuto sostituire un serio lavoro intellettuale, la ricerca, la disciplina mentale, la concentrazione e una profonda comprensione.

All'epoca pensavo che fosse antiquato, ma eccoci qui, un quarto di secolo dopo la diffusione di massa della conoscenza via Internet attraverso ogni portale immaginabile, e dobbiamo porci una domanda fondamentale: siamo, come cultura, nazione e mondo, più intelligenti oggi di quanto lo fossimo 25 anni fa?

Ci sono molti modi per rispondere a questa domanda. Sì, abbiamo più accesso, ma questo ha anche ridotto l'incentivo ad apprendere e ricordare. Questa caratteristica agisce in modi insidiosi. Ad esempio, ho un pessimo senso dell'orientamento. È debilitante. In una nuova città sono senza speranza. L'avvento del GPS ha cambiato completamente la mia esistenza, liberandomi da una vita di ansia per l'orientamento e permettendomi di muovermi come una persona normale.

Detto questo, il GPS ha decisamente peggiorato ulteriormente il mio senso dell'orientamento. Senza, sarei più disperato di prima. È così che funziona. Più dipendiamo da fonti di informazione esterne, meno alleniamo il nostro cervello a trovare le risposte da solo.

È proprio per questo motivo che sospetto che Internet in generale non ci abbia resi più intelligenti, ma, per molti versi, esattamente il contrario. Ci fornisce più dati ma ci priva della necessità di imparare a reperire informazioni da soli.

È strano quanto io ritenga preziosi quei giorni lontani, quando trascorrevo ore infinite, giorno dopo giorno, in una biblioteca vecchio stile, rovistando tra gli scaffali, scoprendo nuove idee, leggendo incessantemente di storia, filosofia, teologia, economia o qualsiasi altra cosa riuscissi a trovare. Mi sentivo sopraffatto ed elettrizzato dalle informazioni e dalle idee a portata di mano e divoravo il più possibile nel tempo che avevo a disposizione.

Le persone lo sentono o lo sperimentano oggi? Non ne sono così sicuro. Leggo spesso di professori che si disperano anche solo per convincere i loro studenti a leggere un solo libro. Hanno inventato ogni sorta di trucchetto per incentivarli e metterli alla prova per assicurarsi che non usino scorciatoie. Sembra del tutto inutile.

È questo il mondo che Internet avrebbe dovuto costruire? Non proprio. Mi ricorda come i primi sostenitori della televisione prevedevano che la maggior parte della programmazione sarebbe stata composta da professori universitari che tenevano lezioni, perché credevano che fosse ciò che il mercato richiedeva.

Il celebre studioso della comunicazione, Wilbur Schramm, affermò nel 1964: “La televisione può portare l'istruzione a casa di ogni famiglia, e può farlo con una potenza e una vividezza che nessun libro di testo può eguagliare”.

È accaduto il contrario e molto rapidamente.

Se volete sapere come i giovani usano i loro smartphone, guardate alle spalle chiunque abbia meno di 30 anni nelle stazioni ferroviarie o negli aeroporti. Vedrete scorrere sconsolati app popolari che non offrono assolutamente nulla in termini di istruzione superiore. Davvero, è un disastro.

Spiegatelo a un membro di questo gruppo e vi risponderà tipo: perché dovrei imparare cose che sono già a mia disposizione se mai dovessi averne bisogno?

È proprio questo atteggiamento che ci ha resi molto più stupidi. Lo si può capire dal vocabolario dei podcaster e di altri commentatori su Internet oggi. Anche 30 anni fa qualsiasi lingua parlassero non sarebbe stata riconosciuta come inglese. Qualcos'altro l'ha sostituita. E non solo negli Stati Uniti, in tutto il mondo. Il francese è in declino, così come il tedesco e lo spagnolo.

Il vocabolario è un segno rivelatore: rivela ciò che abbiamo in testa, ciò che ci sta a cuore. Se quello che esce fuori è un inglese pidgin, questo vi dice tutto ciò che c'è da sapere sulla mancanza di pensiero dietro le parole.

Se questo è vero per la televisione e Internet, quanto più lo sarà per l'intelligenza artificiale e i modelli linguistici di grandi dimensioni? Come strumenti di archiviazione e recupero delle informazioni, al confronto fanno sembrare tutto ciò che c'era prima un disastro. Ho smesso di usare qualsiasi motore di ricerca, se non per compiti specifici. Tra 10 anni dubito che i motori di ricerca avranno ancora una quota di mercato significativa.

Non voglio lasciarvi alla disperazione. Ci sono modi in cui l'intelligenza artificiale è straordinaria e non tornerei mai indietro. Detto questo, ci sono valide ragioni per temere che questo nuovo strumento non farà altro che accelerare il declino del linguaggio, della cultura e dell'apprendimento in generale.

Questi sono i paradossi della tecnologia: a volte ciò che è progettato per salvarci in realtà ci distrugge.

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Andy Thomas wrote:

Great book, IMO. Highly recommended.

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Thanks, Saleh Abdullah. 

https://www.globalresearch.ca/samson-option-illusion-threat-israel-us-iran/5891844 

https://x.com/AFpost/status/1936784897538187392

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1936434968139272467

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Thanks, John Frahm.

Zero Hedge

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Thanks, John Frahm.

Gateway Pundit

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Click Here:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-thomas-massie-criticism-us-strikes-iran-kentucky-maga-rcna214387

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1936952561489379560

and especially https://twitter.com/MassieforKY/status/1936863008174616881

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